CVE-2021-40854: Anydesk

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AnyDesk before 6.2.6 and 6.3.x before 6.3.3 allows a local user to obtain administrator privileges by using the Open Chat Log feature to launch a privileged Notepad process that can launch other applications.

Affected products

• Anydesk Anydesk: from 3.1.0, before 6.2.6 (fixed in 6.2.6); after 6.2.6, up to and including 6.3.2

Published 2021-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.